February 18, 2011
Hey,
thanks to Tom he mentioned a working howto for installing the touch driver on Ubuntu 10.10.
http://lii-enac.fr/en/architecture/linux-input/multitouch-ubuntu-howto.html
I tried this guide after doing
::CODECOLORER_BLOCK_2::and rebooting and touch works fine. I also tried the gesturetest application from the utouch framework
February 5, 2011
Arobase40, the guy who to much of the Ubuntu customisation for the Acer 1825, write a interesting comment on one of my acer 1825 post and I decided, that this information is too important to let it stay as one of n comments.
He wrote:
“If anyone interested for an Android Froyo alpha test file for the 1825PT(Z), and probably for the 1425P :
January 25, 2011
SCRIPT UPDATED: ERROR CORRECTION AND IMPROVEMENTS DEPENDING SOME SPECIAL CONDITIONS 30.1.2011
If I use two monitors in windows environment I use some scrips of the tool active aid http://activaid.telgkamp.de/ to have the ability to switch the active window between both monitors with a shortcut. Since I meanly use Linux on my private pc and laptop I missed this feature badly and I did not find some tool or script which fills this gap. But like the world works as Linux user, if something does not exist, make it on your own: My result is a bash-script which switches the active window between both monitors. This script based on wmiface, a tool which gives you the ability to control windows from a NetWm compatible Window-Manager, so at least KDE and GNOME (I tested it on GNOME). A special requirement for my environment is the ability to switch between to monitors with different resolutions. To use my script you need to install wmiface on your distribution, I think you will not find it in your package manager, but you could download install packages for nearly all huge distributions (or the source) from this site: http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/WMIface?content=40425 If you use debian (like my on my workstation) choose the ubuntu packages. On my test-system(debian 64 testing) the ubuntu 64 packages works fine. Here is the script, download it or copy it and save it to a file. Give execution rights wiht chmod +x. (I copied it to /usr/bin but this it not necessary. You could run it from every directory.) You should test the script in terminal and if everything works fine you could assign this script to a shortcut with gnome-keybinding-properties. Do not forget to edit the resolution for the left and right monitor in line 10 and 11. If you have more than two monitors you should be able to write your own script based on my work.SCRIPT UPDATED: ERROR CORRECTION AND IMPROVEMENTS DEPENDING SOME SPECIAL CONDITIONS 30.1.2011
::CODECOLORER_BLOCK_4::Some hint for google chrome/chromium users, the script does only work if you set the setting in chrome for using the system frame and not the special one from chrome.
December 20, 2010
From this thread on ubuntuforums.org I got a link http://pof.eslack.org/blog/2008/06/05/gsensor-joy-htc-shift-g-sensor-joystick-linux-kernel-module/ of a blog where the author presents his kernel module for using the gyro sensor from the HTC Shift (which is similar to the gyro sensor from the Acer 1825) as a joystick. This site is although the base for my presented scripts and applications for auto rotating the display of the Acer 1825. The problem is, that the presented module does not work on a current kernel, because the architecture of the i2c-bus driver changed in linux kernel 2.6.
December 13, 2010
The Acer 1825 has a special Button for recovery purpose (in windows) above the ESC Key to use this button for a arbitrary script following steps are necessary (in general it is the same procedure like shown in this post http://www.ceh-photo.de/blog/?p=200):
November 27, 2010
Hey,
I am using dropbox, which works for me much better than ubuntu one, because it is platform independent and does not stress your cpu like ubuntu one.
If you like to try it free and earn 250mb extra money for your 2GB account please use that link:
https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTg5MTY0MzY5?src=referrals_twitter
November 20, 2010
I finally found the time to update the whole software of my blog to WordPress 3 including the plugins . (year I know, I am really late).
I have a new sidebar widget, which shows my recommended readings out of my google reader account.
Some new photos from the festival of light in Berlin.
October 30, 2010
In this post I will describe how you could enable the gyro-sensor for automatic display rotation under Ubuntu 10.10 (Should also work under all debian based os)
This post and delivered scripts are based on the work of arobase40 from http://ubuntuforums.org/